Nelson Eddy's last film before he left motion pictures to begin a career as a nightclub singer pairs him again with Ilona Massey, with whom he starred in ROSALIE and BALALAIKA. Set at a Russian fort in 19th-century California, NORTHWEST OUTPOST focuses on the arrival Natalie Alanova
(Massey), a gentlewoman who has traveled from the mother country in search of her husband, Count Igor Savin (Joseph Schildkraut), a convict laborer. Between songs, Capt. James Laurence (Eddy), a dashing American in the employ of the settlement's Russian governor, Prince Nickolai Balinin (Hugo
Haas), falls hard for Natalie, and her husband tries to coerce her into enlisting the captain's...
Released:
1947
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins